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Almost Human Season Two: I decided for Nano Wrimo (National Novel Writing Month), that I will be writing my own version of Season Two (because Fox are cowards). Follow: http://almosthumantvs.tumblr.com to get sneak peaks and other awesome things!

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Rewatching Almost Human and this screenshot makes me want all the Hogwarts AUs.

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Okay, so continuing on my earlier roll of “Rudy Lom as a Hephaestus Metaphor”, I have a million tabs open and the sum of my excessive knowledge about the lore behind A.I. to bring to the table. Let’s go, I’ll attempt to make this as coherent as possible by bringing up one point at a time.

First off, Hephaestus is the Greek god of craftsmen, blacksmiths, metallurgy and fire. In Antiquity that just about represented the driving force of technology and industry, metallurgy being pretty much an art as much as a science. Rudy is a cyberneticist, but also a computer scientist, programmer, and has notable background in other sciences, mostly related to industrial printing (see: his knowledge about the ChemPrinter in “Perception” and his knowledge about the BioPrinter in “Straw Man”).

Secondly, Hephaestus’ symbols are a hammer and anvil, OR a pair of tongs:

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In Rudy’s front pocket here (ignoring the circle). Those may look like scissors but, forgive me for not finding an adequate picture, the handle is identical to that of an old fashioned pair of forceps. A tool used in medicine which function not unlike the bulkier tongs used in blacksmithing, but for small delicate things (such as the inside of that poor unfortunate MX′s head for example).

Thirdly, Hephaestus does not reside with the other gods, but instead has his own palace under the Mount Etna and is generally outcast from the rest of the Olympians. Rudy, as we well know, is lonely out in his re-purposed church which is outside the precinct. Hephaestus is an outcast who never gets any visits, neither from his family or rarely even from his wife Aphrodite who cheats on him with Ares. Rudy never goes out, period.

Fourth, and most importantly, Hephaestus is known for his gift with technology and special power to produce motion. Hephaestus made a number of notable objects for Olympus and special figures, which ties rather nicely in to Rudy being Chief Technician. But Hephaestus also built metal automatons to work for him in his workshop, silver and gold lions and dogs to guard palaces, and most importantly, Hephaestus built Talos, the man made of bronze who circled Crete thrice a day to guard Europa. Talos, as I have mentioned before, is the first known mention of artificial life in mythology, the first A.I. if you will. Rudy supervises the Synthetic Dispatch Division. He is in charge of how the androids are doing. The men made of metal, carbon fiber and silicon who circle the City on patrol to keep the inhabitants safe. And when we first meet him, Rudy is working on a robotic butterfly, imbuing the inanimate with motion. Later, during “The Bends” he “abandons” the head of an unknown android (who I still feel bad for) who was neither a DRN or an MX. A personal project? Probably.

Fifth, @mehay1 brought up a very interesting point with the Synthetic Souls, and I think that there is definitely a mythological link. Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to humanity from Hephaestus’ forge. Now, if we take the fire to mean the “thing that defined humanity above the rest of the animals as sapient meta-conscious beings”, then Nigel Vaughn stealing the Synthetic Souls from Rudy’s lab was stealing “the thing that elevated androids above other machines as sentient meta-conscious beings”, we have a striking parallel. (note: I use “sapient” and “sentient” here separately as two words with distinct meanings, the former relating to reasoning and the latter to feeling).

In addition, @starbase-yorktown noticed the song, which I hadn’t correlated it to anything, but adds another dimension to that first scene. It definitely places Rudy further into the divine sort of area that he already seems to inhabit. But the lyrics (as copied from their post) are actually Spot On for Rudy’s part in giving Dorian to Kennex:

Feeling unknown and you’re all alone,

This is Kennex, he’s just woken up, alone, from a coma and has lost everything. He doesn’t even know himself anymore.

Flesh and bone, by the telephone.

Lift up the receiver, I’ll make you a believer.

This I think in with Kennex’s synthetic leg, he has to believe in the technology, because it’s a part of him now.

Take second best, put me to the test.

These verses are Dorian. Dorian is second best, he’s a decommissioned android of a model notorious for catastrophic malfunctions. He’s second best.

Rudy is being put to the test, but more in the sense of a dare. Rudy knows what he is doing by giving him Dorian. And while It’s true Maldonado requested that Kennex be partnered with him, Rudy is the one we see actually doing the introductions.

Things on your chest, you need to confess

Kennex again, he has guilt over his past and he has his demons, and through even one season, Dorian helps him through some of it.

I will deliver. You know I’m a forgiver

Rudy: he will deliver Dorian to Kennex, that’s why he was called.

But also Dorian: Dorian forgives a lot of Kennex’s mistakes.

Reach out and touch faith (x2)

“Touch it to his left ear”. That’s all that’s coming to mind because the fact that it’s a stick felt weird and I sort of know why now.

All in all, I think this small passage of the song is a tremendous block of foreshadowing. I know my analysis is messy at best, and I’m sure that if we had gotten to see more of Kennex and Dorian’s relationship develop, the verses’ relevance would have been much clearer then they are currently.

In conclusion, there are a good number of traits that Hephaestus and Rudy share, the most salient one being their ability with technology. I think the most convincing argument is the literal symbol of Hephaestus present in every scene where we see Rudy working. However, there is another thing which throws all of this out the window. Hephaestus is lame footed, either from birth or due to fall when he was cast out from Olympus. This has been correlated to the fact the blacksmiths, especially those that worked with bronze, over time suffered from arsenic poisoning (a key component in early bronzes was arsenic). Rudy, as far as the show tells us, is unfit but able bodied. Now, I can propose some theories, which are more canonically plausible headcanons than anything else. But given the (non-exhaustive) evidence above for the correlation between Rudy and Hephaestus leads me to believe there was an unreleased “Rudy’s Backstory” episode where we would have gotten some more information supporting (or denying) the parallels explained above.

Either way, feel free to add to/disagree/argue with me about any and all of this.

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